A Japanese classic made into a tamer version for a U.S. mainstream audience.

This was my first opportunity to see the original Japanese Godzilla movie called, Gojira. It was one of the first foreign films to be cut and dubbed for a U.S. audience which usually Hollywood assumes can't or won't read subtitles . I can see that the U.S. film producers tried to dub the film gracefully. Raymond Burr's character, U.S. reporter, Steve Martin, was inserted into the original film and was used to narrat... Continue reading ...